Jan 18, 2020, 10:19 AM

…(James Brittingham Says:)

Under the nuclear family, individuals are asked to forgo the comfort, protection of large familiar networks, and women face the crucible of spending all day at home alone with infants, in order to pay our surplus production into a national, civilizational or global commons.

Sorry but this is oppression.

Mestizoes, Hassids, bourgeois Muslims, and the Amish all live much better than “legacy Americans”, and our interlopers can hardly be blamed for noticing this.

…(Curt Doolittle Says:)

Nuclear families in northern Europe just meant that you needed to afford a home before having children.

So houses were nearby and communities swapped children to help each other all the time. So the entire community was an extended family.

But your criticism is correct. Extended families, particularly

three-generation families are optimum.

To do that we must move capital to people not people to capital.

…(Bill Joslin Says:)

The break in the continuity of absolute nuclear families to their extended families results from urban planners and bankers in the 1920’s which closed the door on multifamily mortgages.

The “anglo failure” of absolute nuclear families isn’t intrinsic to the ANF familial strategy but rather due to an extension of the strategy that inadvertently created it in the first place: i.e. usurping intergenerational transfer of wealth for those below the upper-middle class.

The Anglo reaction to the influx in Irish and Italian migrants, both of which were accustomed to multigenerational homes, urban planners, and banks removed the possibility of a multigenerational home.

Urban planners via design and zoning permits (i.e. zoning rental buildings as “single-family dwellings” and banks refusing mortgages issued that had more than a single nuclear family on the application. This prevented these migrants from pooling resources and labor to make a stake and establish themselves quickly to American life. It insured the municipalities and landlords capitalized on the new population growth. every generation would pay their rent and live separately as a result.

Similarly, the church outlawing cousin marriages, a few centuries before, pertained to land and estate grabs by the church. An inheritance that would be handed to the next generation now went to the church.

In both cases, the multigenerational home was dismantled in an effort to break them apart as single economic units in order to extract more wealth from them.